Movie: Black Coffee

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Austin Trevor
Austin Trevor

Hercule Poirot

Adrianne Allen
Adrianne Allen

Lucia Amory

Richard Cooper
Richard Cooper

Capt. Hastings

Elizabeth Allan
Elizabeth Allan

Barbara Amory

C. V. France
C. V. France

Sir Claude Amory

Philip Strange
Philip Strange

Richard Amory

Dino Galvani
Dino Galvani

Dr. Carelli

Michael Shepley
Michael Shepley

Raynor

Melville Cooper
Melville Cooper

Insp. Japp

Marie Wright
Marie Wright

Miss Amory

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    Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.

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    1931-08-24

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